{"id":3171,"date":"2022-10-31T01:26:31","date_gmt":"2022-10-31T08:26:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/murrowcourses.com\/graphics\/?p=3171"},"modified":"2022-10-30T16:23:56","modified_gmt":"2022-10-30T23:23:56","slug":"lesson-interactive-connections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/murrowcourses.com\/graphics\/lesson-interactive-connections\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesson: Interactive Connections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"subhead\">Professional Processes: Interactive Connections<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Nadieh Bremer is a prominent data visualization freelancer with a background in astronomy and data science. She often works with large datasets to create interactive projects. <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/354276689\">This talk<\/a> is from last year&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/eyeofestival\">Eyeo Festival<\/a>, and she goes through the process of designing several projects related to connections. Please watch <strong>at least from 8:20 to 17:40<\/strong>, though the whole video has great examples. <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/354276689?color=FF6E4F\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"subhead\">Readings<\/span><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@dominikus\/the-end-of-interactive-visualizations-52c585dcafcb\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The death of interactive infographics? (Dominikus Baur)<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vis4.net\/blog\/posts\/in-defense-of-interactive-graphics\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">In Defense of Interactive Graphics (Gregor Aisch)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"subhead\">Discussion<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s discuss those two readings about whether interactive graphics are worth it, considering they take more effort to make and more effort for users.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Interactivity Debate:<\/strong> Answer these questions in relation to the two readings about interactive graphics.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>What&#8217;s one point about interactive graphics, pro or con, that stood out to you from either of the readings?<\/li>\n<li>When or why do you think it&#8217;s worth it to make interactive graphics even if very few people use all the interactive features?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span class=\"subhead\">Assignment: Advice Flowchart (10 points)<\/span><\/p>\n<p>In this assignment, you\u2019ll create a flowchart that offers advice for different scenarios. This is a more open-ended and creative project to take a break from the step-by-step tutorials, as well as review tree diagrams.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How do professionals approach building interactive projects with large datasets? We&#8217;re expanding on the basic principles of interactivity by learning about the design process of Nadieh Bremer and reading about the debate over whether interactivity is worth the effort for both designers and users.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lessons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/murrowcourses.com\/graphics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/murrowcourses.com\/graphics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/murrowcourses.com\/graphics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/murrowcourses.com\/graphics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/murrowcourses.com\/graphics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3171"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/murrowcourses.com\/graphics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3328,"href":"https:\/\/murrowcourses.com\/graphics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3171\/revisions\/3328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/murrowcourses.com\/graphics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/murrowcourses.com\/graphics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/murrowcourses.com\/graphics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}